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The world belongs to those who show up, and that is no more true in politics. For citizens of Minnesota, precinct caucuses is a true grassroots-level event where someone can show up and make a difference. Locally the Republican and Democratic-Farmer-Labor parties will hold caucuses at these locations on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. Stearns County area: Republican Party Brooten-Belgrade-Elrosa High School, Belgrade Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Sauk Centre High School, 903 State Rd, Sauk Centre. Pope County area: The DFL will caucus at the...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's recognition of National FFA Week kicked off on Tuesday this week with minnow races during the lunch periods at the high school. In the photo, Ryan Illies and Kelsie Hanson race minnows during the senior high lunch period. See additional coverage of the B-B-E FFA Chapter and their activities this week in the print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice....
Four members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team earned trips to the Class 1A state tournament this past weekend. From left: Colby Schramel (152-lb. section champion), Tyler Bents (113-lb. section runner-up), Canon Swanson (106-lb. section champion) and Ben Thompson (195-lb. section champion). They begin state competition on Friday in St. Paul at Xcel Energy Center. See more coverage from the section tournament beginning on page five of this week's Bonanza Valley Voice. Top to bottom,...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team earned their second first-place team trophy of the season this past Saturday at the New London-Spicer meet. With just 11 members participating, the team was placed in the medium-school division. Results are as follows - Third-place winners: Alyssa Dalen (original oratory) and Austin Meyer (prose). Fourth-place winners: Riley Schumann (drama), Isaac Vliem (extemporaneous speaking) and Courtney Brandt (extemp. reading). Fifth-place winners: Austin Meyer...
Shown is video from the senior high lunch period on Wednesday, February 24 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, when the B-B-E FFA chapter hosted milk drinking contests. For senior high students, they were to drink three cups of milk to qualify for the contest....
Four members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team battled in the opening round of the Class 1A state tournament this afternoon (Friday, Feb. 26) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. At 106 pounds, Canon Swanson defeated Taylor Ludwig of Eden Valley-Watkins by fall (4:53) to improve to 28-5 on the season. He advances to the state quarterfinals, which begin tonight at 6:30 p.m. Swanson's opponent will be freshmen Jeron Matson (41-1) of Kenyon-Wanamingo. At 113 pounds, Tyler...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's senior Colby Schramel has forged a 2-0 record in the early stages of the Class 1A individual state wrestling tournament after outstanding performances today at the Xcel Energy Center. (Friday, February 26) Schramel, seeded No. 8 in the 16-member bracket, trailed 4-0 in the first minute of his state opener after giving up an early takedown and then two near-fall points with 50 seconds left in the first period. Schramel picked up three near-fall points with 30 seconds to...
Riding a strong second-half performance in Saturday's Sub-Section 6A-South semifinal round game in Morris, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars came out on top of a 17-win Hancock Owls team to earn their second straight trip to the subsection finals and third in the last four years (13th overall). Trailing for most of the first half, the Jaguars got key shots from Derek Wiener and Tanner Heinsius in the last 30 seconds. Heinsius knocked down a three-pointer standing three feet beyond the arc...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's senior Ben Thompson, a wildly talented three-sport athlete, earned a bronze medal with a third-place finish at the Class 1A state wrestling tournament this weekend. Thompson, seeded seventh in the 195-pound division, went 1-1 on the first day of the tournament and had to get to the third-place match "the hard way". On Saturday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in the wrestlebacks, Thompson started with a win by a 1-0 decision over junior Kieran Johnson (27-16) of...
Here's Fabienne Verhoeff, foreign-exchange student at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, singing the National Anthem prior to the home boys' basketball playoff game on Thursday, Feb. 25....
For the 13th time in the program's history, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team will play for a subsection championship after they defeated third-seeded Hancock 58-49 on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the University of Minnesota-Morris. The Owls, champions of the Pheasant Conference, went 0-2 with two close losses to the Jaguars this season and finish 17-7 overall. The Jaguars take a 15-12 record into the Sub-Section 6A-South championship against a formidable opponent: ninth-ranked Battle...
Below is a press release from the Speaker of the House in Minnesota, Representative Kurt Daudt, about today's ballot counting that resulted in AFSCME's day care unionization scheme failing by a huge margin. The final tally: 1,014 to 392. For day care business owners, the option to join AFSCME is still there. This election does not change the ability of a day care business owner to join the "Child Care Providers Together MN CCPT" union which has been in existence for a number of years in Minnesota. This week's print edition of the Bonanza...
Funeral services for Rick L. Thonvold, age 47 of Brooten, will be on Monday, March 7 at Hope Lutheran Church in Sunburg at 11 a.m. He was owner and co-owner of Brooten Auto with Scott Vogel since 1998, when the purchased the business from Charlie Baker. Rick has been an integral part of the Brooten business community while being a friend to everyone he knew throughout the Brooten and Sunburg communities and the surrounding area. Rick Thonvold, 47 of Sunburg, died on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at...
